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XenServer will not boot after installation

March 1, 2016 by Ulrik Christensen 24 Comments

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The other day, i installed XenServer 6.2 on my new Lenovo ThinkCentre. I thought that would be a great idea since Citrix announced that XenServer is now Open Source.

After the installation was done, i was not able to boot on the new installation of XenServer. After some asking around, i found this solution:

  1. Boot on the Xenserver installation media
  2. When you get to the install screen. Type menu.c32 as on the first picture.
  3. A new screen comes up. Press tab.
  4. You can now see the string that the menu generate in order to start the installation. Just before the last ’—’, type disable-gpt as the picture below and press enter.

    XenServer-Install-02
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Run through the installation as you always do. After the installation is done XenServer will now boot up.

This issue can be experienced on Lenovo computers and IBM servers.

Filed Under: XenServer

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  1. Francisco Silveira says

    May 2, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The same solution is valid for LG-ALLINONE

    Reply
  2. Dan Lee says

    July 12, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    Thanks a bunch! Same solution worked for an old Gateway DX-4860.

    Reply
  3. Israel Alejandro Quintanilla Alas says

    October 5, 2016 at 11:08 pm

    Works great with XEN SERVER 7 installed from USB.
    Thank you so much, can you explain me please what happen if GPT is on.

    Thanks again.

    Reply
  4. Eugene says

    December 29, 2016 at 8:56 am

    Thank you much! Same worked for “Intel Desktop m-board DH61BF”

    Reply
  5. aobasher says

    February 3, 2017 at 3:53 pm

    Thank you so much it works with XEN SERVER 7 installed from USB. on lenv0 t420s

    Reply
  6. Behnood Moradi says

    February 19, 2017 at 1:56 pm

    Thank You

    Reply
  7. Morten Christensen says

    June 4, 2017 at 3:35 pm

    Solved it for me with XenServer 7.1 and an Acer Desktop XC600 from 2013.

    Probably something with its UEFI bios, that cannot handle a GPT boot record with fallback to MBR. A drawback is, that on a 10 T hdd, XenCenter can only see 2 T.

    Reply
  8. Frededrik says

    June 18, 2017 at 7:36 pm

    Just like to confirm that this works on 7.2.0 too. Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  9. Jinfeng says

    November 29, 2017 at 1:38 am

    Great it works with W520

    Reply
  10. Grateful says

    July 17, 2018 at 7:38 pm

    Lifesaver! Banging my head against wall trying to figure this one out. Why it has to be so problematic! Thank you for the write up!

    Reply
  11. Vladimir says

    December 28, 2018 at 1:26 am

    Thank you very much. Very helpful. My XenServer host is finally running and works just perfect.

    Reply
  12. Jesse says

    March 14, 2019 at 12:44 pm

    It worked for me on Xenserver 7.6 on a Dell Inspiron

    Reply
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  14. Ton says

    August 3, 2019 at 8:40 pm

    This helped me just today on xenserver 7.6 on a dell t130. Thank you.

    Reply
  15. Gerson Albuquerque says

    October 14, 2019 at 12:33 am

    It worked on Dell XPS. Thanks!

    Reply
  16. Ahamed Afkar says

    December 3, 2019 at 11:02 am

    Great. Working like a charm on IBM X3100M4. Thanks alot!!!

    Reply
    • Vijith Shankar VJ says

      March 6, 2020 at 12:00 pm

      Sir. Could u please help me . Im trying to install xensever on my ibm X3100 M4. Tried the workaround but still not able to boot from the harddisk.

      Reply
  17. Haruhi says

    January 8, 2020 at 3:29 am

    Thank you very much.
    This solution worked Citrix Hypervisor(Xenserver) 8.1.0 on Lenovo Thinkcentre M82.

    Reply
  18. Charlie Lopez says

    April 15, 2020 at 8:55 pm

    Thanks man!! This saved me lots of time!!

    Reply
  19. Selwyn James says

    June 4, 2020 at 11:25 pm

    Ulrik,

    Many thanks for this.

    Saved me too (IBM x3650 M3).

    I owe you one…

    Reply
  20. Juan Estanovich says

    November 26, 2020 at 6:58 pm

    Excelente , después de 3 horas de buscar la solución por fin un buen tip. Solucionado.

    Gracias!!!

    Reply
  21. SigBee says

    January 6, 2023 at 9:50 pm

    Here is some background info on this:
    https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/install/partition-layout.html
    https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/install/small-devices.html

    Reply

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